Perspicuously

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    With clarity and lucidity.

    "Even the derangement of the phrases from their (so-called) natural order is luminous for the mind; and it is by the means of such designed reversal that the elements of a judgment may be most pertinently marshalled, or the stages of a complicated action most perspicuously bound into one."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a clear and lucid manner wordnet

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"Even the derangement of the phrases from their (so-called) natural order is luminous for the mind; and it is by the means of such designed reversal that the elements of a judgment may be most pertinently marshalled, or the stages of a complicated action most perspicuously bound into one."

Etymology

From perspicuous + -ly.

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